Means for producing stage illusions.



PATENTED DEC. 18, 1906.

H. GOLDIN. MEANS FOR PRODUCING STAGE ILLUSIONS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB.21,1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT ()FFICE. :HORA-(JE GOLDIN, or LON-DON; ENGLAND.

MEANS FOR PRODUCING STA'GE ILLUSIONVS. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed February 21, 1906. Serial No. 302.251.

Patented Dec. 18, I906.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HORACE GoLnIN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at 17 Torrington Square, London, W. 0., in the county of Middlesex, England, have invented new and useful Improvements in Means for Producing Stage Illusions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to improvements in means for producing stage illusions, and articularly refers to those illusions in whic an individual, preferably a lady, is raised in a reclining position and retained in mid-air by concealed su ports during the time a ring is passed over t iie whole length of the lady, the object of the present invention being to so arrange the support as to render only one pass of the ring over the lady necessary and at the same time to allow the chief operator to entirely leave her immediate vicinity and hand the ring to the audience for inspection.

In order that this invention may be clearly understood and more easily carried into practice, I have appended hereunto two sheets of drawings, upon which I have illustrated the nature of my said improvements.

Figure 1 is a View illustrating the position of the lady in mid-air, the operator passing the ring over the body, and the assistant attendants. Fig. 2 a view of the concealed supports upon which the lady is retained in mid-air, the chief operator and attendant with the rin being in this case shown by dotted lines, w e the one form of mechanism for raising and lowering the lady is shown under the stage-floor. Fig. 3 is a view of one form of receptacle containing supports upon which the lady lies prior to belng raised. Fig. 4 is a view of the attachment between the top of the lifting-rod and the socket of the support.

In connection with this invention a wrought iron or steel horizontal support A is provided and is shaped with the extension a for the body part to rest upon and with the slight enlargement a for receiving the head, the curved projection a being arranged to support the thigh, with a similar curved projection a, for the lower part of the leg. By these improvements the support A is continued nearly or quite up to the shoulder and is continued to form the curved bracket proj ectidn B, the extreme end I) of which is provided with a socket-piece into which the. vertical operating-rod C takes.

with a stud c, which enters an aperture 1) in the support and whereby the end of the support is prevented from becoming wed ed 1n the socket by the heavy strain of the everage of the support when the lady is in midair.

cle P, which may preferably be in the form of a boat containing the support A, is placed in position, so that the socket b is over the rod 0 and the attendant is standing in position at or near the head of the lady and in a position to screen the rod 0 when it is raised, such attendant having passed the ring over the socket end I) just prior to the top of the rod 0 raising into engagement with the socket, while the other attendant at the foot end removes the front 1) of the receptacle and the lady is raised and the receptacle removed, upon which the operator takes the ring from the attendant and after assing it once over the whole length of the ady moves entirely away with the ring to hand to the audience, after which the receptacle is replaced in position, the lady lowered, and the side 1) replaced, the slot 10 which is hidden by padding being rovided to allow the bracket B to rise and fa] and that the receptacle in which the ladyreclines, together with a table, chair, or couch, which maybe connected to anyconvenient part of the support, maybe raised at the same time as the lady, the whole being removed to allow the lady to descend, as before described.

It will readily be seen that the projecting curved bracket B may be arranged at the. foot end, if so desired.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An illusion apparatus comprising a skeleton support adapted to be concealed by a person resting thereon, and provided at one end with a laterally-projecting bracket, and a vertically-movable operating-rod on which In demonstrating this illusion the receptathe said bracket is separably mounted to permit the passage of a ring over and along the person supported.

2. An illusion apparatus comprising a concealed operating mechanism, a verticallymovable rod actuated thereby, a suitable receptacle, a skeleton frame lying Within the receptacle and upon which a person may rest, and a bracket projecting from the skeleton frame and constructed to be separably engaged by the upper end of the said rod, for the purpose described.

3. An illusion apparatus comprising a con' cealed operating mechanism, a verticallymovalble rod actuated thereby, a suitable receptacle, a skeleton frame lying within the thereby out o the receptacle, and a ringv adapted to be passed onto the bracket prior to the engagement of the rod and bracket and of a diameter to be then passed around and along the person.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

HQRACE GOLDIN.

Witnesses:

DAVID J. HAILEY, THOMAS H. HIRST. 

